The Ratings Thread (Part 13)

BBC3 shows often are at the top of the most watched list on iPlayer. Snog, Marry, Avoid does very well on there and Russell Howard's Good News was getting the same number of requests on iPlayer as he was viewers on BBC3.

Also, Mock The Week gets around the same number of iPlayer views as Eastenders which is excellent considering the TV ratings difference.
 
They will do what they did last year and wait for a big episode and have an hour special to catch up rather then running a 2 normal episodes in one or catch up on Christmas as im sure it will air from Mon to the following Wednesday(only missing the weRAB) as xmas day is a Saturday and Boxing day a sunday so there's still extra episodes
 
Just over 6m is still good for The Apprentice, but a little underwhelming really and it doesn't seem to be building its audience and doesn't seem as resiliant to ITV competition as it was last time. But it's all swings and roundabouts really because SCD is up and getting more media attention this year and The Apprentice is losing out in that respect.

Emmerdale would definitely have been capable of 8m with promotion and it's really bizarre why ITV didn't promote it. It was a strong episode, if a little rushed considering it was the climax to a huge storyline. Still remains the strongest soap for me-consistent all year with something going on in every single episode. I think that's why ratings remain consistent throughout the week aswell.

It seemed to provide a good lead in for Poirot, pulling in a similar audience it would have done on a Sunday. Poirot/Marple are always around 5m so the Sunday to Wednesday transition has been done quite well.

Bad night for CH5 apart from Cowboy Builders which performed as reliably as ever.
 
Erm...

- Don't Stop Believing
- James Corden's World Cup Live
- Daybreak
- Married, Single, Other
- Michael Winner's Dining Stars
- Ant and Dec's Push the Button
- Modern Masters
- The Prisoner

(Some can be contested, but those are ones off the top of my head)
 
The Friday 7.30pm episodes do quite well relatively speaking with shares of about 40%. They've been getting about 8.5m recently, and considering the Thursday episodes get 7.5m, you'd have to say that Tuesday episodes up against Holby City would be down to about 6.5m-7m which would be unacceptable really for what is still ITV's best-rated weeknight show.


On Thursdays, Corrie would be half an hour long most weeks so that would give the BBC an opportunity at 8.30pm to try pre-watershed comedy and other things. Friday 7.30pm would be a prime spot for sitcoms to rate well, between The One Show and EastEnders.

Essentially I don't think moving 2 episodes of Corrie around and 1 episode of Emmerdale to simply boost Tuesdays is worth the hassle, when it will have a negative impact on Corrie and will open up more slots for the BBC to make inroaRAB in. It's also not something which fans of Corrie will like as it breaks routines/habits which are years old and some viewers might not watch the Tuesday episodes and in addition to the Thursday episodes which don't rate anyway, they might say it's not worth keeping up with the show anymore, and it'll have a knock-on effect on how the other episodes rate.

The programmes which air on Tuesdays are cheap factual shows anyway so it's not really essential for ITV to get big ratings for them by giving them a Corrie lead-in. Don't get the false impression that if Corrie were to move to Tuesdays, they'd suddenly start commissioning dramas for Tuesday 9pm or expensive live shows. They'd probably still have the same old factual stuff!

Also we must remember that even with Corrie lead-ins on Thursdays, some shows at 9pm have been rating with just 3-3.5m viewers or so (Greatest Cities in the World, All at Sea, Homes From Hell). What's to say the same thing won't happen on Tuesdays?


You're right that BBC1 hasn't really taken advantage of the lack of Corrie in that Wednesday 7.30pm slot; I think other than LoR, Jimmy's Food Factory got 5m+ but cant remember any other show. On Sundays at 7pm, however, they've made real strides since Corrie moved away from there with the success of Countryfile. And I think on Friday 7:30pm they'd have more of a chance of succeeding because whatever show they have would be airing right before EE and I just think they'd make more of an effort there.


Yep, it must be desperate times at ITV HQ for them to re-run a whole series of Grimefighters in the Autumn :D.
 
the ITV Press Office has a differnt definition of "exciting" than the rest of us.

They probaly mean that they have sent Adrian & Christine Trick or Treating, and are using the sweets to help bribe former popstar "Lolly" to appear on the show, as this weeks star guest
 
Does it need a male presenter - Tess and Claudia anchor the Sunday show now, I assumed that might be a trial run?

Barrowman sounRAB an awful idea, Norton would probably be acceptable.
 
The production values on the Strictly Halloween special were far superior to X Factor and I never thought that would happen.

The graphics, music, set, props, consumes - all amazing.

X Factor seemed to lose its theme all the way through - some sections it was barely noticable.
 
Low rating for Monte Carlo or Bust - one of the worst ratings for a non-repeat in that slot this year. Proof once again that some shows don't really benefit from following Corrie, and actually 71 Degrees North has been doing better on Tuesdays without the big lead-ins.

A little improvement for BBC1's 9-10pm shows compared to last week but still pretty disappointing figures for HIGNFY considering it was getting 5m+ earlier this year in the same slot against normal competition. Channel 4 did quite well by recent standarRAB at 9pm, and MPD will have got 2m+ once C4+1 is factored in.
 
This is Strictly's year. Excellent figures and wonderful growth. The X Factor started very strongly but the live shows haven't managed to keep that momentum going, for whatever reason.
 
Well, on the previous occasion when ITV tried to poach Chiles and Bleakley (and, admittedly, others from The One Show) it was with an evening One Show copycat in mind, so you never know.

I'm not convinced ITV has the infrastructure to make a copycat show, though. If they eventually end up giving the duo a 5pm show, I suspect it would be mainly a chat show, with very few inserts, and little if anything in the way of a team of reporters.
 
I disagree. Any move would be of little benefit to ITV and would only damage Coronation Street further. They have very few hits as it is, I don't think it's wise to carry on messing with the ones they do have.
 
Gosh do you think? I reckon 4 would be good, 4.5 excellent, as it must average around 3.2m so far, 5m is a huge jump. The shows next week are 90 mins each too, so quite long.
 
Possibly 12-13 million is the show's limit, but I don't think anyone at ITV is complaining. Also Mr Cowell has signed a deal for another three series.
A bit of a curved ball this, suppose he does announce it's ending in 2013. My prediction would be that the final series could pull in 15 million viewers, partly as a sympathy vote, as occured to a far lesser extent with BB 11.
 
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